February 8, 1944
E FISHERMAN
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PRINCE RUPERT
CANADIAN FISH & COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.
"Rupert Rrand"
Cured Ice — Herring Bait PRINCE RUPERT   -   - B.C.
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Peterson & Edward
General Merchandise
FRESH MEATS kept fresh by our modern refrigeration system.  VALVOLENE Agency.
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NOW ON SALE . . . Latest Hit Tunes, Sheet Music and Records.
RONNIE'S
Stationery — Magazines
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Fishermen—For REAL SAVING in Prices TRY
EDDIE'S
Shoes, Clothing and
Confectionery ALERT BAY, B.C.
Right on your course is—
BLISS LANDING
Stop in for . . .
GEAR GRUB GAS
Fish and Liver Buyers
LOYAL L. YOUNG
For a Fair Deal
Get Your PROVISIONS at
The Meat Shop
at STEVESTON, B.C.
Pete Rolston, Prop.
YUCLATAW TRADERS
Stuart Island, B.C.
Fishbuyers, Store, All Supplies, Oil Station, Postoffice and Telegraph
JAS. B. GRAHAM
Duncanby Landing RIVERS INLET Standard Oil Products GENERAL STORE
GIL MERVYN General Store
PENDER HARBOR, B.C.
Fresh Water, Gov't Tested (Obtained from drilled well) Home Gas and Oil Independent Fish Buyers
THULIN TRADINC
', Co., Ltd. ;
(Red & White Store) , Complete stocked for every need * of the fishermen — Fish Buying J Camp — Imperial Oil Products > LUND, B.C. J
The Canadian Fishing Co. Ltd. J
Fresh, Frozen, Canned, Smoked, I Salted Fish Fish Meal, Oil,' By-products
FT. GORE AVE., VANCOUVER |
Cable Address: "Nootka" Vancouver
Nootka-Banfield Company Ltd.
Packers of
CANNED SALMON AND PILCHARDS
Manufacturers of
FISH MEAL AND OIL
Yorkshire Building VANCOUVER, B.C.
Relmont Hotel
Cor. Granville & Nelson
When   in   our neighborhood, drop in to see us.   Rooms by Day, Week, or Month.
Reasonable Rates
BOB SWANSON - Manager
II 'You Have The Floor7
This column is open to all readers, organized and unorganized. The Edf torial Board requests all letters be signed. Signatures will be published unless otherwise stated. Letters should not be more than 200 words in length.   Letters to the editor to do necessarily reflect the policy of
The Fisherman.
Union Should Ditch Death Benefit Fund, Let Government Assume Responsibility
At the fifth annual convention of the UFFUU to be held March 20 there will undoubtedly be a discussion on the first year's experience of the operation of the union"s Mortuary Fund established by the previous convention. Beiow we publish the views of one union member in the hope that this expression of opinion will provoke a frank and full discussion among the union membership which will provide the delegates at the convention with adequate guidance as to the views of the rank and file on this matter. Our columns are open to your views.—Editor.
Editor, The Fisherman: I read in your paper recently "Have you paid your mortunary fund assessment?" I must confess that I think a death benefit is a very good thing, provided that the union can afford it without going to the members to get the funds.
In 1939, when I joined the union, I did so in order to help the fishermen get better conditions and fish prices. I did not think at that time it was to be an insurance union. I consider that it is the government's business to look after the widows, not the union's.
The mortuary fund assessment is not going to be less! It will be more as time goes on and I bet that in one more year the annual membership fee will be up $3000 or more and I must confess that I for one cannot pny this amount. This is how it arpears to me as the members have already had to pay $3.50 each.
The members of the union were not first asked if they wanted this or not. I did not see or hear any such question. Now I am one of tl.ose low trollers and when the fishing is over in the fall you look at how much you have and you see little enough. Between the upkeep of the boa*, and g'ar and the taxes, food and clothing for
the winter, the various drives, local and national, during the winter, and now the mortuary fund. I find 10 fathoms between the two ends and I cannot get them together.
And what do we bachelors get out of it? Nothing and there is a 50-50 chance that we will be drowned with the boat we fish from.
I must confess that if I cannot get twelve months union membership for $15.00 I would not be able to continue.
Hoping this practice will be discontinued,
Yours for a better solution, EINER J. OLSEN. Quatsino, B.C.
Greets Plant Boys At New West.
Editor: The Fisherman: I have been a member of Local 89, Cannery Workers and a constant reader of The Fisherman which keeps me in touch with activities pertaining to the fishing industry. This has always been a source of interest to me particularly when away from the coast
Before enlisting in the army I was an employee of B.C. Packers at New Westminster.
I would certainly appreciate receiving The Fisherman regularly, in accordance with your offer to servicemen.
To close this letter I would like to remember the boys in the plant by wishing them a prosperous New Year.
PTE. WALLY EDWARDS Calgary, Alta.
Balmoral Hotel
"The     Fishermen's Home"
159 East Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C.
North Shore Packing Co. Ltd.
Packers of High Grade SALMON and HERRING Waterfront, Foot St. Andrew St Phones: North Van. 797, MA. 4641 NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.
A. C. Benson Shipyard Ltd.
Electrical Work, Marine Ways, Boat Repairs, etc. Builders and Designers: Tugs, Fish Packers, Fishing Craft.
1705 W. Georgia   - Vancouver
E. A. TOWNS LIMITED i
Distributors
.   VITAMIN OILS FISH MEALS - FISH OILS |
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Marine Bldg.
I
Vancouver, B.C. I I
MARKS BROS
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY
SALES •
Marine Wiring Power Installations Generators, Cutouts, Rheostats 6, 12, 32 volts. Batteries, Switchboard and Marine Fittings 125 Main Street Phone PA. 3945 Vancouver, B.C.
Fishermen! ,
Increase your Earnings ! . . Buy your Groceries and Provisions from . . .
Vancouver Supply
CO. LTD. WHOLESALE GROCERS "The House of Service" 25 Alexander St. PAv. 8321
LARSEN'S Grocery
Provisions for Fishermen 329 E. Hastings        PAclflc 4824
International Fishing and Trading Co. Ltd.
Agents for United Fishermen's Co-op and Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op — Campbell Ave Wharf, Vancouver, B.C.
Women's Auxiliaries
Vancouver
Auxiliary activities for February include the following:
February 9, membership meeting (social) at 8 p.m.
February 16, whist drive and bingo at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds in aid of the Crippled Children's Hospital. Everybody welcome.
February 23, regular business meeting at 8 p.m.
All meetings will be held in the Fishermen's Hall.
B.C. HERRING PRODUCTION
1943 - 1944 BULLETIN   No. 13
1943-1944 Season to Jan. 29, 1944: 1944
CATCH—        ' Green Tons
District No. 2: Central _________________........_........31,285.75
District No. 3:
Lower East Coast ...............43,132.03
Quathiaski _.............................. 4,603.21
Upper East Coast................ 2,669.58
West Coast V.I.....................10,671.75
West Coast V.I. (Quatsino) 50 Non Quota .............................. 264.50
Total __________.............................. 92,676.82
PRODUCTION— Canned, 48 lb. cases:
Tom. Sauce Total
1  lb.   Tails .........152,269 188,589
1 lb. Ovals ___________466,889 896,369
%  lb.  Ovals ......_ 75,118 75,118
Totals ......_________.....694,276 1,160,076
♦Used fresh, etc., tons........ 357.35
Brine cured, tons _........... 442.
**Used for bait, tons ........ 1,322.50
Herring Meal, tons............ 6,515.13
Herring oil, imp. gals. ...459,447. Herring offal meal, tons... 2,044.24 Herring offal oil, imp.
gals. _____.............................286,213.
* Includes cured herring.
** Includes frozen for bait. February 2, 1944.
WHIST DRIVE
A Whist Drive and Bingo will be held in the Fishermen's Hall, on Wednesday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served.
Proceeds of this affair will qo to help the work of the Crippled Children's Hospital.
Admission charge will be 35c.
UFFU Members:
HAVE YOU PAID YOUR MORTUARY FUND ASSESSMENT?
B.C. Public Market
333 Main Street FRESH MEATS — Best Quality (Special Rates to Fishermen)
STOP WASTE
In Your Cannery Retorts and Tanks
One Reduction Plant reports avoiding purchase of new boiler and saving 12 gallons of fuel oil per hour.
ARMSTRONG
STEAM TRAPS
... do the work and the story is told by . . .
General Equipment Ltd.
317 West Pender St. PA. 5932 Vancouver
John Stanton
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY 503 Holden Bldg., 16 E. Hastings MArine 5746 Vancouver
WASHINGTON LABORATORIES
Producers of
VITAMIN OILS
We pay competitive top of market cash price for fish livers.
B.C. Agents
BLAINE MYERS & CO.
302 Alexander St. Vancouver, B.C. Seattle Ketchikan
PROPELLER ADJUSTERS
P£RF£OION
(JAS. CAMPBELL)
1919 W. GEORGIA ST. Vancouver, B.C. MA. 3857
Edmunds & Walker
LIMITED
Handling All Grades of
Fresh, Frozen, Mild, Cured and Smoked Fish
VANCOUVER, B.C.
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
IN MARINE SHEET METAL WORK
W. A. THOM
Sheet Metal Works Ltd.
1779 WEST GEORGIA ST. VANCOUVER, B.C.
Principal Products Manufactured:
MARINE TANKS STACKS MUFFLERS VENTILATORS
Portable Welding Equipment Phone    - -   MArine 2725
Ramsay Machine Works Ltd.
Machinists —Engineers — Founders — Patternmakers MARINE REPAIRS Phone G5314 1630 Store St. — VICTORIA, B.C.
MARTIN-SENOUR
MARINE PAINTS and VARNISH
Blackburn's, Steveston Carter's Hardware, Alberni Cranberry Hardware, Powell River
J. E. Dawson, Dawson Landing
McLennan, McFeely & Prior Ltd., Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria
Sold by:
W. Kennedy, Squamish J. Ostrom, Bamfield Clugston Hardware, Marpole Courtenay Hardware, Courtenay Crombie & Fairhurst, Vancouver Gordon & Anderson, Prince Rupert
C. O. Thulin, Campbell River
Back the Attack
Produce !
Produce !
Speed the Victory Produce I
FISH PRODUCTION VITAL WAR SERVICE
Suppling food for the United Nations has been one of Canada's big services to the anti-Axis cause, and the Fishing Industry has pulled its full weight in the production job. Today, demand for food is still more urgent, not less. Canadian Fish is needed in huge and steady quantity—Fish for Britain, fish for other United Nations, fish for domestic needs. The needs is a new challenge to everybody in the Fishing Industry. Keep driving, everybody- Don't slacken for even a day. Back the Attack by Canada's Fighting Men. Speed the Victory through production.
Every Possible Pound of Canadian Fish is Needed
DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES
OTTAWA
Hon. Ernest Bertrand, Minister.
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